Rights at Work
Protecting Your Rights At Work
The “Rights at Work” category empowers workers with essential knowledge about their workplace rights and entitlements. Explore resources that explain leave entitlements, workplace safety standards, and protections against unfair dismissal. Learn how union members ensure every worker has access to fair treatment and safe working conditions.
Stand Up For Fairness And Equity
Understanding your workplace rights is the first step toward achieving equity and fairness at work. This section covers key topics such as minimum wage laws, casual worker protections, and superannuation rights, providing you with the knowledge to address workplace challenges confidently.
Collective Power To Protect Your Future
Union members work together to safeguard workers’ rights, from fighting against wage theft to improving job security. Discover how collective action drives change and creates a future where fairness is at the heart of every workplace.
See our articles below for more information about your rights at work!
New work rights: what’s changing on 26 August
August 20, 2024
In the last two years, the union movement has won the biggest changes to workers’ rights in this country in generations. Here’s what changes are coming into effect on 26 August 2024.
Using new laws to win better pay and conditions for working people
August 14, 2024
Union members are using new union-won laws to secure better pay and conditions for thousands of workers across workplaces and industries.
Breaking the silence: union members campaign for paid reproductive leave
August 5, 2024
Australian women are retiring years before they planned to due to a lack of workplace support to address the symptoms of menopause and other reproductive health conditions.
New union-won rights at work: what you need to know
July 30, 2024
In the last two years, the union movement has won the biggest changes to workers’ rights in this country in generations. These changes deliver new and improved rights that empower millions of workers.
Are you being paid correctly?
July 26, 2024
No matter what you do for work, it’s essential to understand your rights when it…
Dutton is coming for your workplace protections
July 11, 2024
Peter Dutton has already committed to turning secure jobs into casual jobs, repealing the right to disconnect and standing against minimum standards for gig workers.
Paid Parental Leave now at 22 weeks
July 8, 2024
From 1 July 2024, the amount of Paid Parental Leave new parents can access increased from 20 to 22 weeks.
Union members win change this financial year
July 4, 2024
Today’s the start of a new financial year, and a number of changes that benefit workers – and workers’ wallets – have come into effect.
Six wins for workers to celebrate on 1 July
June 20, 2024
In just over one week, millions of workers across Australia will start to see a boost to their pay packets and increased safety in their workplaces.
168 years on, workers are still winning better work/life balance
April 21, 2024
On this day in 1856, Melbourne’s Stonemasons fought for – and won – the 8-hour workday as a nationwide industry standard.